A report sampling more than 1,000 prime defense contractors’ supply chains revealed that the Department of Defense’s IT supply chain includes dozens of Chinese companies. The report also highlights a critical issue DoD has repeatedly raised with its contractors: adversarial investments or other ways the nation’s biggest competitors could try to infiltrate the defense industrial base or poach American innovation.
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DOD’s IT Supply Chain Has Dozens of Suppliers from China, Report Finds
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